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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, our next guess is the unmistakable frontman and one
of the most influential groups of all time, Culture Club.
We grew up with him and his voice is as
recognizable as his iconic look.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Please welcome the one and only by J.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Hello, good Money.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Because I was enjoying the local news, I was like,
what's going on.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We're just so thrilled you're coming back to Adelaide.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We're really excited about this.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And we found all this vision back nearly twenty years
ago in eighty four, were you pulled off?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I guess what would have.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Been, Well, you pulled off the eighties version of breaking
the Internet because our station back here then was called
five AD and we organized a petition to get you
here to Adelaide, and we pulled it off, and twenty
five thousand people came to watch you in random Wall.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Can you remember that.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Very very vividly. It was so insane. I remember what
I was wearing. I didn't wear my heart. I was
trying to do a Brooks Shields look, which I'm not
sure I just remembered, just thinking, look all these people.
You know, it's a shame we didn't really get to
play in Adelaide. Properly at that point.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
But you know, it was just.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Such a beautiful day. And actually, whenever I see photos
or clips.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Of that, so I'm like, oh my god, you remember that.
It was insane, absolutely plain.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
To be so far away from the UK and have
that sort of effect was amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
When did you really know that you and Culture Club
were big? Like when did you have that very first
moment that you thought, holy hell, this like I am
a big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
If I ever felt like I'm a provide myself every morning,
you're a big deal. No.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I think America was the thing when we went to
America and it was like, oh America, you know, because
somebody had come up to me in the street in London,
a manager of Stander Balle had said to me, you know,
they're playing your song on like country radio in America,
and I was like, they are. So the idea of
being known outside of the UK was mind blowing, and
(02:03):
especially Australia coming all that way and see you know,
oh god, they've heard it here, you know, and it
was it was you know, it happened quite quick for
us as well. It was like one minute we couldn't
get signed. Everybody thought it was a joke. Nobody took
me seriously and then suddenly it was like maya, you know,
that was in a way it was overnight.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
The success was so quick.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
But we were watching it, watching a lot of videos
of you in London more and you had your long
hair and you had the makeup on, and the way
that it was described to us, in the way that
a lot of people on all the videos we were
watching were saying, it was just like it was so
freeing at the time to see someone like you succeeding
and have the long hair and the makeup. Do you
sort of, yeah, feel like just by being yourself? I mean,
(02:47):
does that give you a sense of pride?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I think when you're that age, you just don't think
about what other people say, you know, you just you know.
I mean obviously I've come from the punk scene and
New Romantic, so.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Actually, to be honest, culture club was toned.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Downsted something on my Instagram actually about that, because I
was saying before I did you know, kissing to be
clever and live did that photo shoot?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I was I was a full on golf and.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
They kind of clean the up a bit, maybe a
bit healthy looking, and so what I was doing, you
know in culture, cub is actually kind of left in
a way, left out raisers than I'd actually been because
I think everybody thought.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You'll never get anywhere look like that.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
But you know, as I say, it was, it was
just one of those mad things that you know. I
just went with it, and I was like, Okay, this
is good.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well good.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I mean, look at some of the amazing stats. Right,
Color by Number sold four million copies in the US alone.
You're the first band since the Beatles to have three
songs from your debut album in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
On Billbol's Hot one hundred, I have a one hundred
million single sold.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But boy George, do you want to know what comes
up first when you put into Google predictions?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Boy George, it is.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Why does boy George wear a hat?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
That's what everyone I've got.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I've actually got hair. People are really shocked when I
take my hat off and they go, oh, you've got hair.
I'm like, yeah, I've got hair. You do not understand,
like they think you're wearing a hat to hide.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Just love a hat, you know, I think a hat
makes a statement.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I think there are hat people and people that just
can't stand that.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, you maw of it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You know, Hey, so how many do you have? Like
what does it look like when you walk into your bedrooms?
Like do you just have an entire room full of
them right next to an entire room full of all
your own clod Wards?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
The hats of a colossal ego. They have to have
their own rooms. So yeah, they're everywhere, really, I mean
you could just bump into.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Them all over the place, in the kitchen drawers, cupboard,
you know, everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So boy, just when you come to us here in
Adelaide and we're all sitting there waiting with bait and
breath for you to explode onto the stage with the
rest of the band and culture club, you're standing off
side of stage, what as going to be going through
your mind before you walk out in front of the
Adelaide audience.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Always tell myself to be connected. I always like, I
tell myself it's going to be an amazing show.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I always do that.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I always said tonight's gonna be amazing. I know it's
going to be beautiful. And when you walk on with
that kind of attitude, because I never used to so
I was in a bad mood. I took it on
stage and everybody got it right. But these days I
don't really get like that. So I'm always kind of like,
this is going to be great, and you know it's
going to be the best show ever. You always want
the next show to be better than the last one.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yes, but it's about.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Like looking at the audience, connecting with them.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You know, involving them in the show.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I mean I talk a lot on stage. I definitely
talk a lot, and I like that, and I like
to make jokes to make people laugh. I'll probably say
in appropriate things all the time.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well, I think it's one of the best things you
can do. No one wants to go and see a
band and know that they could have said it and
put their CD or just stream so you know we're
there to see you the great performer.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Oh No. Also, and I think for me now, because
I love telling stories and I like telling the audience
what I've learned.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You know, I'm like, guess what, you know. I didn't
realize I didn't have to be so difficult.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, I'll tell you what, boy, George, we cannot wait
to see you here.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It is the Culture Club's Greatest Hits Tour.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's gonna be playing the Adelaide n sent Monday, eleventh
of septem Per. Tickets on sale tomorrow at ten am
through ticket Tech.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Boy, George, you and your hats. You hurry up and
get down here. Cannot wait.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I'm coming. I'm coming like a chameleo.
Well, our next guess is the unmistakable frontman and one
of the most influential groups of all time, Culture Club.
We grew up with him and his voice is as
recognizable as his iconic look.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Please welcome the one and only by J.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Hello, good Money.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Because I was enjoying the local news, I was like,
what's going on.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We're just so thrilled you're coming back to Adelaide.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We're really excited about this.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And we found all this vision back nearly twenty years
ago in eighty four, were you pulled off?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I guess what would have.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Been, Well, you pulled off the eighties version of breaking
the Internet because our station back here then was called
five AD and we organized a petition to get you
here to Adelaide, and we pulled it off, and twenty
five thousand people came to watch you in random Wall.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Can you remember that.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Very very vividly. It was so insane. I remember what
I was wearing. I didn't wear my heart. I was
trying to do a Brooks Shields look, which I'm not
sure I just remembered, just thinking, look all these people.
You know, it's a shame we didn't really get to
play in Adelaide. Properly at that point.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
But you know, it was just.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Such a beautiful day. And actually, whenever I see photos
or clips.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Of that, so I'm like, oh my god, you remember that.
It was insane, absolutely plain.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
To be so far away from the UK and have
that sort of effect was amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
When did you really know that you and Culture Club
were big? Like when did you have that very first
moment that you thought, holy hell, this like I am
a big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
If I ever felt like I'm a provide myself every morning,
you're a big deal. No.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I think America was the thing when we went to
America and it was like, oh America, you know, because
somebody had come up to me in the street in London,
a manager of Stander Balle had said to me, you know,
they're playing your song on like country radio in America,
and I was like, they are. So the idea of
being known outside of the UK was mind blowing, and
(02:03):
especially Australia coming all that way and see you know,
oh god, they've heard it here, you know, and it
was it was you know, it happened quite quick for
us as well. It was like one minute we couldn't
get signed. Everybody thought it was a joke. Nobody took
me seriously and then suddenly it was like maya, you know,
that was in a way it was overnight.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
The success was so quick.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
But we were watching it, watching a lot of videos
of you in London more and you had your long
hair and you had the makeup on, and the way
that it was described to us, in the way that
a lot of people on all the videos we were
watching were saying, it was just like it was so
freeing at the time to see someone like you succeeding
and have the long hair and the makeup. Do you
sort of, yeah, feel like just by being yourself? I mean,
(02:47):
does that give you a sense of pride?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I think when you're that age, you just don't think
about what other people say, you know, you just you know.
I mean obviously I've come from the punk scene and
New Romantic, so.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Actually, to be honest, culture club was toned.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Downsted something on my Instagram actually about that, because I
was saying before I did you know, kissing to be
clever and live did that photo shoot?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I was I was a full on golf and.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
They kind of clean the up a bit, maybe a
bit healthy looking, and so what I was doing, you
know in culture, cub is actually kind of left in
a way, left out raisers than I'd actually been because
I think everybody thought.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You'll never get anywhere look like that.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
But you know, as I say, it was, it was
just one of those mad things that you know. I
just went with it, and I was like, Okay, this
is good.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well good.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I mean, look at some of the amazing stats. Right,
Color by Number sold four million copies in the US alone.
You're the first band since the Beatles to have three
songs from your debut album in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
On Billbol's Hot one hundred, I have a one hundred
million single sold.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But boy George, do you want to know what comes
up first when you put into Google predictions?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Boy George, it is.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Why does boy George wear a hat?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
That's what everyone I've got.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I've actually got hair. People are really shocked when I
take my hat off and they go, oh, you've got hair.
I'm like, yeah, I've got hair. You do not understand,
like they think you're wearing a hat to hide.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Just love a hat, you know, I think a hat
makes a statement.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I think there are hat people and people that just
can't stand that.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, you maw of it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You know, Hey, so how many do you have? Like
what does it look like when you walk into your bedrooms?
Like do you just have an entire room full of
them right next to an entire room full of all
your own clod Wards?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
The hats of a colossal ego. They have to have
their own rooms. So yeah, they're everywhere, really, I mean
you could just bump into.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Them all over the place, in the kitchen drawers, cupboard,
you know, everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So boy, just when you come to us here in
Adelaide and we're all sitting there waiting with bait and
breath for you to explode onto the stage with the
rest of the band and culture club, you're standing off
side of stage, what as going to be going through
your mind before you walk out in front of the
Adelaide audience.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Always tell myself to be connected. I always like, I
tell myself it's going to be an amazing show.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I always do that.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I always said tonight's gonna be amazing. I know it's
going to be beautiful. And when you walk on with
that kind of attitude, because I never used to so
I was in a bad mood. I took it on
stage and everybody got it right. But these days I
don't really get like that. So I'm always kind of like,
this is going to be great, and you know it's
going to be the best show ever. You always want
the next show to be better than the last one.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yes, but it's about.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Like looking at the audience, connecting with them.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You know, involving them in the show.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I mean I talk a lot on stage. I definitely
talk a lot, and I like that, and I like
to make jokes to make people laugh. I'll probably say
in appropriate things all the time.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well, I think it's one of the best things you
can do. No one wants to go and see a
band and know that they could have said it and
put their CD or just stream so you know we're
there to see you the great performer.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Oh No. Also, and I think for me now, because
I love telling stories and I like telling the audience
what I've learned.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You know, I'm like, guess what, you know. I didn't
realize I didn't have to be so difficult.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, I'll tell you what, boy, George, we cannot wait
to see you here.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It is the Culture Club's Greatest Hits Tour.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's gonna be playing the Adelaide n sent Monday, eleventh
of septem Per. Tickets on sale tomorrow at ten am
through ticket Tech.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Boy, George, you and your hats. You hurry up and
get down here. Cannot wait.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I'm coming. I'm coming like a chameleo.
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